O.J. Simpson’s White Bronco Can Apparently Be Rented for Parties

An unlikely prop greeted guests at the Greenwich, Connecticut, art gallery owned by newspaper tycoon—and father of the fashionable Brant brothers—Peter Brant Sr. on Sunday: the white Ford Bronco previously owned by O.J. Simpson. The same white Ford Bronco that transported the former N.F.L. player (and, in June 1994, alleged murderer) during that infamous slow-speed car chase. And also apparently the same white Ford Bronco that is available for party rentals.

The prop was rented for the day as a nod to artist Nate Lowman, whose exhibit “I Wanted to Be an Artist But All I Got Was This Lousy Show” was being celebrated over the weekend. Forbes surmises that the vehicle was rented as a thematic flourish for the opening-night soiree, since Lowman, whose show features tabloid crime-scene photos and shots of Tonya Harding and a seemingly drunken Jenna Bush, “has been thinking a lot about tragic blondes lately.” Parked on the polo lawn underneath Brant’s Urs Fischer statue, Art Info adds, the Bronco “made a great photo op for Brant’s fashionable guests, which included David Altmejd, Dan Colen, LeeLee Sobieski, Terry Richardson, Cynthia Rowley, and the members of Gang Gang Dance, who played a surprise performance.”

Although it is not entirely certain who owns the Ford Bronco these days, the vehicle was purchased by Michael Pulwer for $75,000, nearly twice its original value, after Simpson was found liable for the deaths of his wife and her companion Ronald Goldman during a 1997 civil trial. This is presumably not the first time that a Lowman art exhibit has invoked O.J. Simpson and his late wife: the artist has repeatedly used an image of a topless Nicole Brown Simpson in his pieces since 2001.